ayah

Definitions

1. A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia.
2. A verse in the Quran.

Equivalents

Examples

“She manufactured the Station scandal, and talked to her ayah.”

“[…] a cot of iron⟳ had to be manufactured for [Bhim] after he had demolished two wooden cribs with a lusty kick⟳ of his foot; and a succession of bruised ayahs had finally to be replaced by a male attendant, a former Hastinapur all-in wrestling champion.”

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